Article
[Experiments with growing plants on orbital stations Saliut-5, Saliut-6 and Saliut-7].
Kosmicheskaia biologiia i aviakosmicheskaia meditsina - 1 Jan 2000
Kostina L N, Anikeeva I D, Vaulina E N
Abstract excerpt
The experiments with air-dry Crepis capillaris seeds flown on the spacecraft Soyuz-16 and orbital stations Salyut-5, Salyut-6 and Salyut-7 showed that the number of aberrant cells in the seedlings grown during flight (experimental) and after flight (flight control) was higher than that in the ground-based control. This number was greater in the experimental seedlings than in the flight controls. The plants...
Topics
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Mutation
- Seeds
- Space Flight